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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. You have a choice: Will you control technology so that it works for you, or will you let it undermine your practice of management? Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes?

Power 265
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Why Good Managers Need To Power Down

Tanveer Naseer

I’m delighted to share this guest post from Henry Mintzberg and Peter Todd, one of the professors and Deans from m y alma mater, McGill University. You have a choice: Will you control technology so that it works for you, or will you let it undermine your practice of management? Do you ever disconnect, even for just a few minutes?

Power 265
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Planning Doesn’t Have to Be the Enemy of Agile

Harvard Business Review

Henry Mintzberg defined strategic planning as “a formalized system for codifying, elaborating and operationalizing the strategies which companies already have.” At this meeting one fundamental question is addressed: when we add up everything, does this contribute to our company’s strategic goals?

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